Signature and Advertising Rules
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:48 am
Recently a number of questions have be raised regarding what constitutes commercial advertising in these forums. As a result you may notice a clarification that was added to the rules a few weeks ago:
We hope that clears up any misunderstandings. Our moderators are only here to moderate the tiny 1% of the community that break the rules. If you ever feel a posts breaks the rules, please use the 'report to moderator' link you will find next to the post.
Another question regarding the rules has also come up:
Q. Can competing open source projects list their projects in their signatures?
A. Yes! We have very good relations with many OS projects including rival CMS's - but we certainly don't have a problem with representatives from Xoops, Drupal, Typo3, Mambo etc, if they have an account on our forums, to have a signature that includes links to their own project.
The only constraints are:
I hope the forgoing proves helpful.
As always, thanks to all who make our Joomla Community such a great, helpful and 'safe' place.
Complete rules: http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,65.0.html
No commercial advertising is permitted. Any posts deemed to be self promotion, advertising, or spam can and will be removed. NO SPAM - NO ADVERTISING eg. Posting and making unnecessary references to your products and websites is self promotion.
We hope that clears up any misunderstandings. Our moderators are only here to moderate the tiny 1% of the community that break the rules. If you ever feel a posts breaks the rules, please use the 'report to moderator' link you will find next to the post.
Another question regarding the rules has also come up:
Q. Can competing open source projects list their projects in their signatures?
A. Yes! We have very good relations with many OS projects including rival CMS's - but we certainly don't have a problem with representatives from Xoops, Drupal, Typo3, Mambo etc, if they have an account on our forums, to have a signature that includes links to their own project.
The only constraints are:
- Must be setup in your Profile (link up the top, next to logout) , and not manually added to your messages.
- May NOT contain any images.
- May not contain any pricing, sales, product etc. details.
- May contain a maximum of two smilies. Or one animated smiley.
- May include two clickable links. URL's or mailto:
- Only exact URL's allowed ie not < a href="www.domain.com">LOOK HERE
- May include two colors. Hyperlink color is set by the forum and is not counted as a color.
- Maximum font size cannot be larger than normal.
- Must be kept to a maximum of four lines (at 1024 resolution).
- May not contain links to other threads or posts.
- Your signature is your signature. It is not for sale or rent.
- Any signature or avatar that is offensive or insulting to either us, our members, or our staff, are prohibited.
I hope the forgoing proves helpful.
As always, thanks to all who make our Joomla Community such a great, helpful and 'safe' place.
Complete rules: http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,65.0.html